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Jan 30, 2022Liked by March Twisdale

>> Are the complicit, bad people? No. They are victims, and they need our help.

LOL. "Victims."

Yes. Help them take your job, freedom, and life. Help them silence you and destroy you.

There's a word for people who join popular moments to annihilate their neighbors because of their own weakness and mental illness, and it isn't "victim."

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A bad person is one who would harm others of their own volition. Many people, in 2020, continued to operate at a level of goodness…coming together in many praiseworthy ways.

Once the “vaccine” came on the scene, this all changed. Two groups emerged. The truly evil (in my opinion) who are using their previously established positions of power to commit crimes against humanity.

And, the truly weak, who appear to lack personal courage or the capacity to think critically. They chug Kool-Aid.

These people, have also served as the “white coats” of the soft totalitarianism regime, because they are vulnerable to expertly crafted manipulations and propaganda.

I hold them responsible for their cowardice.

But, I do see that the Global Cartel knew these people existed as a demographic and they were targeted effectively…lending them a level of victim status.

This matters, because it’s true AND they are (perhaps) more likely to become angry at the true enemy…if we do not hate upon them directly. Everyone has a weakness, and theirs was played upon with masterful skill by truly evil (bad) people.

It’s like what Haymitch says to Katniss right before the 2nd Hunger Games: “Remember who the real enemy is.”

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Jan 30, 2022Liked by March Twisdale

Agree to disagree.

They hate you and want to hurt you. They are chimps with rocks ready to crush your skull and screech with triumph.

How or why their minds got there doesn't interest me. I can't see past my contempt anymore. They've made it clear they're not worth the effort.

Just be careful. You're petting wolves. They won't all wag their tails and sit. Keep doing what you're doing, but invest in a good pair of gloves.

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I think my primary point was that there are some people we may be able to recover from the dark side. I don’t want to practice the same kind of othering and bigotry toward these people that they are practicing toward me. So, I’m leaving that door open and I think that when they realize how deftly they were manipulated and how egregiously they were lied to and tricked… if I can acknowledge that they are more likely to possibly emerge from the brainwashing, but just in the past few weeks I’ve had a significant shift in my own perspective.

Quite frankly, this is such a massive undertaking to try to save humanity from the worst totalitarian experience imaginable, that I just don’t have any energy to spare on the people who are part of the problem. I am finding my people, my comrades, my fellow members of the movement, my tribe as it were and working with them on important projects.

It’s up to everyone else to figure out whether or not to drink the red Kool-Aid or chug a blue pill. No longer my problem.

I have to say, I definitely hold the bystander community fully accountable and responsible for their behavior. And, while there is a chance that I may forgive those who actually acknowledge how horribly they screwed up, I will never forget. And, they will never be off the hook for the harm caused. I live on an island that I imagined would be a somewhat more safe community to experience the change that would come in society, because we are small and we are water bound and that tends to create a greater sense of interconnectedness. But, in this past year I have seen those same people slide easily into the saddle on the back of a massive monster of oppression and segregation and medical apartheid and doublespeak. Far too many members of my community have spoken the words, it’s not force. These human beings are not trustworthy or dependable or reliable. So, I view all of those types of people with a very careful eye and I will never put my life or the life of my children or anything of value in their hands ever again. It will surprise me if I remain in this community given what I have witnessed, so. Thank you very much for the reminder and the warning! And please know that I am definitely a far cry away from naive trust or soft-hearted compassion. They are victims in the same way that villagers riled up into a mob by the Inquisition in the 1600s were victims of the Catholic Church. Victims, yes, but still extremely dangerous.

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You're not wrong at all.

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